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Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize
One $1,000.00 prize winner receives publication in the Spring 2009 Issue; two honorable mentions receive $100.00 each ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-10-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 26-Jun-2008

Paumanok Poetry Award
Poems may be published or unpublished, and there are no restrictions on style, subject matter, or length of poems ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 26-Jun-2008

The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize
The prize is awarded annually to the manuscript of a first or second book of poems by a U.S. poet and consists of a $1000 cash award and publication ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $20.00.
Added: 26-Jun-2008

Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Established in 1993, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award is presented annually for a first book by a poet of genuine promise ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-15-2008.
PRIZES: $10,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 26-Jun-2008

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is presented annually for a work by an emerging poet, one who is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-15-2008.
PRIZES: $100,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 26-Jun-2008

2008 RRofihe Trophy Contest
For an unpublished short story (up to 5,000 words). Winner receives: $500 cash ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-15-2008.
PRIZES: $500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 05-Jun-2008

Literal Latte Essay Awards
Send unpublished essays, 8,000 word max. All styles and subject welcome ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-20-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 26-Jun-2008

New Criterion Poetry Prize
New Criterion Poetry Prize for a book length manuscript of poems that pay close attention to form. The winner will receive $3,000 and the winning manuscript will be published by Ivan R. Dee, Chicago ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-30-2008.
PRIZES: $3,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 24-July-2008

Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest
Submit poems in any style, theme or genre. First prize is $2,000. A total of $5,250 in prizes will be awarded ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-30-2008.
PRIZES: $2,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $6.00.
Added: 07-August-2008

Hackney Literary Awards
The Hackney Literary Awards, open to writers nationwide, are presented each year as part of the Birmingham-Southern College Writing Today Conference. The competition awards $5,000 in annual prizes for poetry and short fiction ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-30-2008.
PRIZES: $5,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 22-August-2008

The May Swenson Poetry Award
This annual competition, named for May Swenson, honors her as one of America's most provocative and vital writers ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-30-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 24-July-2008

The Philip Levine Prize in Poetry
This contest, open to all poets offers a $1500 prize, publication and distribution by Anhinga Press ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-30-2008.
PRIZES: $1,500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 24-July-2008

THE JOURNAL/OSU Press Poetry Prize
The Journal, the literary magazine of The Ohio State University, selects one full-length manuscript of poetry each year for publication by The Ohio State University Press ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-30-2008.
PRIZES: $3,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 05-Jun-2008

Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Award
The award will include publication by this press, five copies of the finished book, and a cash prize of $1,000 ... (more)
DEADLINE: 09-30-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 26-Jun-2008

Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest
Accepts all genres of literary fiction. Entries must be unpublished; strictly 5,000 words or less ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 07-August-2008

Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fiction Fellowships
Grants will be awarded to writers who have published at least one book of fiction, either a novel or a collection of stories. Each grant is for $4,000 ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-01-2008.
PRIZES: $4,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 04-September-2008

Chapter One Fiction Competition and Reading Series
The Chapter One Fiction Competition and Reading Series provides opportunities for emerging novelists to share their work with an audience, while emphasizing the importance of a strong first chapter ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 22-August-2008

Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest
The Cleveland State University Poetry Center is pleased to announce the fourth annual Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest. One prize of $1000 and publication of the winning novella is offered ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 22-August-2008

2009 National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry
Annual contest awards $500 plus publication for the first place winner in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-01-2008.
PRIZES: $500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 10-July-2008

The 2008 Joy Harjo Poetry Award & the Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award
Submit up to three unpublished poems (100 line limit for each) or one unpublished short story (5000 word limit), any subject, any style ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-10-2008.
PRIZES: $1,250.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 22-August-2008

Doogwood's Poetry and Fiction Awards
Submit fiction up to 25 pages or three poems. Awards $1000 First Prize and Publication in each category ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 04-September-2008

DIAGRAM Hybrid Nonfiction Contest
DIAGRAM announces a contest for an unpublished (in a serial/magazine/journal/book or on a non-personal website) hybrid essay ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 04-September-2008

2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize
The Barnard Women Poets Prize is given every other year for an exceptional second collection of poems written by an American woman who has already published one book of poetry ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $20.00.
Added: 22-August-2008

Poets Out Loud Prize
Poets Out Loud is sponsoring an annual competition for a full-length poetry manuscript, published in the spring by Fordham University Press. The POL Prize awards $2000, publication by Fordham University Press ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-15-2008.
PRIZES: $2,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 04-September-2008

The 2008 Washington Square Competition
Winners (one in Fiction and one in Poetry) receive $500 and publication in a forthcoming issue of Washington Square ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-15-2008.
PRIZES: $500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 07-August-2008

Indiana Review's Fiction Prize
Indiana Review's 2008 Fiction Prize offers a $1000 honorarium and publication for the best fiction story ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 24-July-2008

Quercus Review Poetry Series Annual Book Award
Open to all poets, with or without previous book publication. New and emerging writers are especially invited to submit ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-17-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 07-August-2008

The Calvino Prize
The Calvino Prize is an annual fiction competition that awards outstanding pieces of fiction in the fabulist experimentalist style of Italo Calvino ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-25-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 24-July-2008

Inkwell's 12th Annual Poetry Contest
Awards $1000 grand prize and publication in Inkwell. Submit up to 5 previously unpublished poems, 40-line limit per poem ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-30-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 04-September-2008

Inkwell's Short Fiction Contest
Awards $1500 grand prize and publication in Inkwell. Submit up to 3 previously unpublished stories, 5,000-word limit ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-30-2008.
PRIZES: $1,500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 04-September-2008

Ninth Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards
Elixir Press is sponsoring a poetry contest open to all poets writing in English. There will be a Judge's Prize of $2,000 and an Editors' Prize of $1,000 ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-31-2008.
PRIZES: $2,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 04-September-2008

The Patricia Bibby First Book Award
The competition is open to all poets writing in English who have not committed to publishing collections of poetry of 36 poems or more in editions of over 400 copies ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-31-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 07-August-2008

Miller Williams Poetry Prize
The poetry prize is named in honor of Miller Williams, one of America’s finest poets and cofounder and first director of the University of Arkansas Press. The series is open to all book-length manuscripts of 60 to 90 pages, except translations ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-31-2008.
PRIZES: $5,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 22-August-2008

American Poetry Review /Honickman First Book Prize
The annual American Poetry Review /Honickman First Book Prize offers publication of a book of poems, a $3,000 award, and distribution by Copper Canyon Press through Consortium ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-31-2008.
PRIZES: $3,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 22-August-2008

Thirteenth Annual Dana Awards
Offering three $1,000 awards annually in the Novel, Short Fiction, and Poetry ... (more)
DEADLINE: 10-31-2008.
PRIZES: $3,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15 - $25.00.
Added: 07-August-2008

The Briar Cliff Review Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Contests
Entries will be judged by the Editors of The Briar Cliff Review. $20.00 entry fee per story/creative nonfiction piece or three poems. $1000 First Place for each category ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 22-August-2008

Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize
Del Sol Press announces the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize for the best short story, either published (in a periodical) or unpublished, 2000-8000 words ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,200.00.
ENTRY FEE: $16.00.
Added: 04-September-2008

The Danahy Fiction Prize
The Danahy Fiction Prize is an award of $1,000 and publication in Tampa Review given annually for a previously unpublished work of short fiction ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 24-July-2008

Beullah Rose Poetry Prize
The 1st Prizewinner receives $200 and publication of the winning poem in Issue 16 of Smartish Pace ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-01-2008.
PRIZES: $200.00.
ENTRY FEE: $5.00.
Added: 24-July-2008

2008 Anderbo Poetry Prize
Submit up to six unpublished poem. Winner receives $500 cash ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-01-2008.
PRIZES: $500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 10-July-2008

Moment-Karma Short Fiction Contest
Moment Magazine is now accepting submissions for the 2008 Moment-Karma Short Fiction Contest. Moment will award three prizes to outstanding works of unpublished short fiction with Jewish content ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-14-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 26-Jun-2008

2009 Georgetown Review Contest
Awards $1,000 and publication to the winning short story, poem, or essay on any theme or subject. All genres welcome ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 04-September-2008

Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award
Sonnets must be original and unpublished. No translations. Writers may enter as many sonnets as they wish ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $3.00.
Added: 04-September-2008

2009 Chautauqua Poetry Contest
Prize: $1,000 and publication in Chautauqua, the literary journal of the Chautauqua Institution. Winner and finalists receive a copy of the journal ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $20.00.
Added: 22-August-2008

Walt Whitman Award
The Walt Whitman Award brings first-book publication, a cash prize of $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center to an American who has never before published a book of poetry ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-15-2008.
PRIZES: $5,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 22-August-2008

Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Writing Contest
The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival is pleased to announce its first annual Fiction Writing Contest. Grand prize includes $1,500, domestic airfare ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $20.00.
Added: 26-Jun-2008

The Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry
Award $1,000 for best poem. Five honorable mentions will be offered publication in The Broome Review ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-29-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 10-July-2008

The 2nd Annual Hotmetalpress Chapbook Contest
Prize is $350 and 20 free copies to the best chapbook of up to 32 pages ... (more)
DEADLINE: 11-30-2008.
PRIZES: $350.00.
ENTRY FEE: $20.00.
Added: 10-July-2008

SLIPSTREAM Annual Poetry Chapbook Competition
The annual Slipstream poetry contest offers a $1,000 prize plus 50 professionally-printed copies of your book ... (more)
DEADLINE: 12-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $20.00.
Added: 07-August-2008

Textnovel.com Online Writing Contest
$1,000 and possible publishing contract for top story on textnovel.com. New website that allows writers to create, share and read serial novels online using their cellphone or computer ... (more)
DEADLINE: 12-31-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 07-August-2008

Poets of the American West Anthology
Many Voices Press is accepting submissions for an anthology of poets from Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming ... (more)
DEADLINE: 12-30-2008.
PRIZES: $200.00.
ENTRY FEE: $12.00.
Added: 07-August-2008

The Tampa Review Prize for Poetry
Winning manuscripts are issued in both hardback and paperback editions & authors receive royalties on sales in addition to the cash award ... (more)
DEADLINE: 12-31-2008.
PRIZES: $2,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 24-July-2008

The 2008 Del Sol Press Poetry Prize
Del Sol Press invites contest submissions from both emerging and established poets, published or unpublished. Winner receives a $1,200 honorarium ... (more)
DEADLINE: 01-15-2009.
PRIZES: $1,200.00.
ENTRY FEE: $24.00.
Added: 04-September-2008

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